Employers of the Chinese city of Wenzhou look for opportunities of business in the Community of Madrid

17/04/2012

17 April 2012

PromoMadrid Has received today in his offices to a business delegation of the city of Wenzhou (China) that realises a trip by Europe for the identification of potential business opportunities.

Wenzhou Is a city-prefectura of the province of Zhejiang in which they reside more than 9 million people. Historically the city has exerted an important economic paper for the province thanks to the situation of his port, that allows the access to the mountains of the interior. Nowadays it keeps on being the economic mainstay, politician and cultural of the sudeste of the province and his more important exports are foods, tea, wood and paper.

The delegation that has visited the offices of PromoMadrid has been composed by stood out members of the Camera of Trade of Wenzhou, directors to his time of important companies of several sectors in the zone. Spain has a special bond with this city, since it is the origin of a big part of the Chinese emigrants installed in our country. The group visitor came accompanied like this by representatives of commercial associations and companies, with origin in Wenzhou, already operative in Madrid.

The representatives of PromoMadrid have transmitted to the comitiva big visitor quantity of information on the economy of the region and his international projection, as well as specific details on the main competitive advantages of the Community of Madrid. The Chinese employers have been able to appreciate at first hand the high degree of economic freedom reached in the region, after several terms of office in which it has designed and implemented a big quantity of measures with this common denominator. Also they have remained gratamente surprised when knowing some key data for the internationalisation of the Madrilenian economy, as that it is of an upper size to the one of countries like Finland or Israel or that in 2011 has increased the direct investment foreigner in 140%, concentrating 56% of the total received by Spain.

The comitiva of Wenzhou has foreseen to complete his visits to other institutions in Madrid with interviews in the CEOE, the Camera of Trade of Madrid and the Foreign office.